BiffDangler:How many people actually give a shiat about baseball? I did when I was a kid, but basically I don't know anyone who follows it anymore.

I don't care about baseball. You wanna know how much I don't care about baseball? I just clicked on a baseball playoff thread so I could tell a bunch of baseball fans that I don't care about their game.

Once again, the Tigers will peak too early and cream Boston like Boston cream pie. Will the Tigers learn from 2012? Will they remain hungry as a Tiger for the win and work out like they mean to beat the Cardinals? Will they get the spirit of 1968 where they came back from game 1 where Bob Gibson struck out 17 Tigers and won 1968? Or will they throw it away like 2006? 2013 is an epic 2 out of 3 faceoff of 1968-2006-2013, a modern rivalry matching the older Yankee-Giants and Yankee-Dodger classics of the 40s 50s early 60s.

BiffDangler:How many people actually give a shiat about baseball? I did when I was a kid, but basically I don't know anyone who follows it anymore.

Lemme tell ya about growing up in Detroit in the early 1960s. There was no such thing as football soccer basketball. There was only baseball and the Detroit Tigers. I never heard about football, not a word of it until I was nine and a new kid on the block brought his football from wherever he moved from and taught us the rules. The only force more powerful than Tigermania was Beatlemania when it was more important to collect Beatles cards than baseball cards. But that was February March April of 1964. When baseball came back in season, so did baseball cards.

Yes that's the voice of the kid speaking. Yes as an adult I don't care about baseball unless the home team is in the world series. This time it is for the second year in a row.

Kevin72:BiffDangler: How many people actually give a shiat about baseball? I did when I was a kid, but basically I don't know anyone who follows it anymore.

Lemme tell ya about growing up in Detroit in the early 1960s. There was no such thing as football soccer basketball. There was only baseball and the Detroit Tigers. I never heard about football, not a word of it until I was nine and a new kid on the block brought his football from wherever he moved from and taught us the rules. The only force more powerful than Tigermania was Beatlemania when it was more important to collect Beatles cards than baseball cards. But that was February March April of 1964. When baseball came back in season, so did baseball cards.

Yes that's the voice of the kid speaking. Yes as an adult I don't care about baseball unless the home team is in the world series. This time it is for the second year in a row.

Rule 9, Section 2, Article 4: There is no distinction between a player touching a ball or being touched by it, but a player is not considered to have touched the ball if he is blocked into it by an opponent, provided he is in a passive position and not blocking. A player who is engaged with and blocking his opponent when he contacts the ball is deemed to have touched the ball.

Now whether the Dallas guy was passive or blocking back... eh. Whatever.

fatalvenom:Kevin72: BiffDangler: How many people actually give a shiat about baseball? I did when I was a kid, but basically I don't know anyone who follows it anymore.

Lemme tell ya about growing up in Detroit in the early 1960s. There was no such thing as football soccer basketball. There was only baseball and the Detroit Tigers. I never heard about football, not a word of it until I was nine and a new kid on the block brought his football from wherever he moved from and taught us the rules. The only force more powerful than Tigermania was Beatlemania when it was more important to collect Beatles cards than baseball cards. But that was February March April of 1964. When baseball came back in season, so did baseball cards.

Yes that's the voice of the kid speaking. Yes as an adult I don't care about baseball unless the home team is in the world series. This time it is for the second year in a row.

But I thought Detroit is Hockeytown?

It might be hockeytown now. I was talking about the 1960s up to the Tigers winning it all in 1968. I went to junior high school and high school with Gordy Howe's sons, though even that didnt make hockey exciting.. That was after we moved to the suburbs. I left Detroit in 1983 for a national league city (SF Giants) so I never had to drop the Tigers, except for last year. My problem here in SF is that I actually LIKE the Dodgers.